Maybe you have some old documents with nasty equations written in Word, but now you need to re-use them in LaTeX (maybe for your dissertation), and of course you don’t want to re-type everything. Thankfully, there exists writer2latex that will help you do that. Here are the steps:
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writer2latex takes a LibreOffice document as input, so first thing is to download and install LibreOffice, open your Word document (
.docx
or.doc
) and save it as.odt
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Then download and install writer2latex and read the instructions on how to run it. In Unix, for instance, it involved changing the execution permissions of the binary:
chmod +x w2l
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Run the code:
./w2l -ultraclean Text.odt Text.tex
We use the-ultraclean
option to get rid of all formatting, since LaTeX will take care of that. It is probable that the generated.tex
won’t compile at first, so I recommend you get the parts you’re interested in by pieces into your final document.
Big kudos to Henrik Just!